I like this take. Companies like Apple and Google with trillions of dollars and the brightest engineers in the world are facing the theoretical problem that teams will be less productive if they are allowed to remain at home with their families instead of undertaking commutes to the office.

Why does this particular problem fall in the bucket of "throw up our hands and continue doing things the old (old, old, old) fashioned way," unlike all the other problems big tech feels qualified to attempt to innovate a resolution to? Companies that at least initially thrived on rejecting the status quo and doing what was better, even if it was challenging, suddenly abdicating to a status quo that is centuries old and costs everyone huge amounts of our least renewable resource: our time.